[PATCH] arm/arm64: KVM: Feed initialized memory to MMIO accesses

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Wed Feb 24 03:40:44 PST 2016


On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 03:34:20PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On an MMIO access, we always copy the on-stack buffer info
> the shared "run" structure, even if this is a read access.
> This ends up leaking up to 8 bytes of uninitialized memory
> into userspace.

I think it only leaks 'len' bytes to userspace ;)

> 
> An obvious fix for this one is to only perform the copy if
> this is an actual write.

Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
> index 7f33b20..0f6600f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
> @@ -206,7 +206,8 @@ int io_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run,
>  	run->mmio.is_write	= is_write;
>  	run->mmio.phys_addr	= fault_ipa;
>  	run->mmio.len		= len;
> -	memcpy(run->mmio.data, data_buf, len);
> +	if (is_write)
> +		memcpy(run->mmio.data, data_buf, len);
>  
>  	if (!ret) {
>  		/* We handled the access successfully in the kernel. */
> -- 
> 2.1.4
> 



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